Explore Glissando through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like tune or melody. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Glissando meaning
- Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
- A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
Using Glissando
- The main meaning on this page is: Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando). | A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
- Useful related words include: tune, melody, air, strain.
Context around Glissando
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glissando
- In this selection, "glissando" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, satisfying, solemn, piano, must, swoops and trumpeters stand out and add context to how "glissando" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a glissando and glissando is an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glissando" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glissando
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Glissando is an effect in which the fretting hand slides up or down the neck. (15 words)
Glissando : Trumpeters can slide between notes by depressing the valves halfway and changing the lip tension. (16 words)
Maurice Ravel's piece Alborada del Gracioso contains notable piano glissando passages in thirds executed by the right hand. (19 words)
At times, the orchestration feels like a bit of a counter-productive gimmick – for every snappy crescendo, or satisfying glissando of the strings, there are a dozen bars of gluttonous noise that would, on record, surely provoke claims of “overproduction”. (40 words)
Sometimes slide dampening can make the new note sound "bent" or as if there is a glissando from the dampened note to the ringing one, as the two notes normally ring together for some short period of time. (38 words)
But no oh-no-ing here.) The sinister clatterings of harpsichord or xylophone, the glissando swoops of double bass and two harps, the lurching solo trombone: all always ear-catching, were especially vivid. (33 words)
Example sentences (9)
Every pitch in a glissando must have the same harmonic number, and a tritone is the largest interval that can be performed as a glissando.
At times, the orchestration feels like a bit of a counter-productive gimmick – for every snappy crescendo, or satisfying glissando of the strings, there are a dozen bars of gluttonous noise that would, on record, surely provoke claims of “overproduction”.
But no oh-no-ing here.) The sinister clatterings of harpsichord or xylophone, the glissando swoops of double bass and two harps, the lurching solo trombone: all always ear-catching, were especially vivid.
The weightiness of von Trier’s story arc is signaled right away, with the occasional solemn glissando or a rest that halts the music’s momentum.
Glissando is an effect in which the fretting hand slides up or down the neck.
Glissando : Trumpeters can slide between notes by depressing the valves halfway and changing the lip tension.
Maurice Ravel's piece Alborada del Gracioso contains notable piano glissando passages in thirds executed by the right hand.
Sometimes slide dampening can make the new note sound "bent" or as if there is a glissando from the dampened note to the ringing one, as the two notes normally ring together for some short period of time.
The latter could thus be thought of as capable of either 'glissando' or 'portamento', depending on whether the drum was rolled or not.